Benefit of Wearing a Hearing Aid on the Unimplanted Ear in Adult Users of a Cochlear Implant.
The purpose of this investigation was to document performance of participants wearing a cochlear implant and hearing aid in opposite ears on speech-perception and localization tests. Twelve individuals who wore a cochlear implant and a hearing aid on contralateral ears were tested on their abilities...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 668 - 681 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
June 2005
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